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11th, March 2012 Celebrities

EastEnders' Shona McGarty fails Asda's yoghurt police

News is that EatEnders actress Shona McGarty has been barred from the Asda supermarket in Watford, Herts. She allegedly, as the Sun puts it, "suggestively smearing herself with YOGHURT."... More »

11th, March 2012 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Martin Smith, Jane Tanner and a computer reconstruction

McCann is back in the news. In recent days the missing child has made it back to the top of tabloid news cycle. There is talk of a reconstruction of the night the child went missing... More »

11th, March 2012 Reviews 12

Iraq's Moral Police massacre emo kids - so the vested interest groups say

Reports are that the past month at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police... More »

11th, March 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - golfing with Larry David's monkey

Golf, monkeys, Larry David and the chair-a-cise... More »

11th, March 2012 In Pictures 1

Basset Hounds Running (Photos Of Joy)

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11th, March 2012 Madeleine McCann 4

Madeleine McCann's kidnapper spotted in South Turramurra

"Echoes of Maddie in abduction attempt of six-year-old girl at South Turramurra - Audrey has spoken out about the attempted abduction of her daughter, 6, at a park in South Turramurra last month..." More »

11th, March 2012 Music 1

Bruce Springsteen scales the New York Apollo - photo

Springsteen was in Harlem , New York, last night, as The Boss and his E Street Band took to the stage at the Apollo Theater.... More »

11th, March 2012 In Pictures 1

Adverts - Creepy Children In Weird Ads

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11th, March 2012 Reviews

Bristol footballer bit off star player's ear for not passing the ball

Bristol Crown Court, where amateur footballer Lewis Hunt, 20, is explaining why he bit off a large chunk of 19-year-old Stuart Taylor's ear... More »

11th, March 2012 Photojournalism 1

Photo of the day - Tips and tricks for fighting folks

More Tips 'n' tricks: When they are looking... Don't... More »

11th, March 2012 TV & Radio

Melati Suryodarmo performs the Butter Dance - a video

20 blocks of butter in a square on the black dance carpet. Suryodarmo enters the space, dressed in a black tight dress and red high heels. She steps on the pieces of butter.... More »

11th, March 2012 Technology 2

Daily Express readers live 20 year longer (and so do their mice)

In "PILL TO EXTEND LIFE BY 20 YEARS", the Daily Express has news of a life-extending "gene". Given the title's demographic, that pill might soon be administered free at the point to sale to all Express readers... More »

11th, March 2012 Sports

Harry Redknapp, Frank Lampard and Chelsea linked to paedo thought sex, says The Sun

Love rat, five-times-a-nigh footballers rejoiced when the News of the World hung up its probing lens and closed its wallet to kiss 'n' tell mo-dels. But the Sun on Sunday is here to tell us that Chelsea player Frank Lampard has a "paedo uncle". .. More »

10th, March 2012 In Pictures

Banksy's London Art

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10th, March 2012 In Pictures

Olympics: London 1948 Games In Photos

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10th, March 2012 Reviews

Breast Implant Watch: Stephen Kellaway's crimes of passion

Stephen Kellaway was at Croydon Crown Court last week. Kellaway, a 54-year-old former psychologist, had enacted various scams, including pretending to be dead in order to claim money to fund, among other items, his Russian wife's new breasts.... More »

10th, March 2012 In Pictures

The World's Worst Logos

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10th, March 2012 Reviews

The Guardian's Open Journalism is a vox pop laugh-in

“[It] is a collaboration between journalists within the building and experts out of the building … who are experts because they care about the subject matter as much as we do. They don’t have to be called professor". You just need a mouth... More »

10th, March 2012 Flashback

Historic London in photos - poverty, suffrage and a Diamond Jubilee

London was not always throbbing with City cash, oil money and Russian oligarch grease... More »

10th, March 2012 Strange But True

Man charged with castrating goat rapist

To Worcester, South Africa, where a woman is watching a man rape a goat. She tells the goat owner, Andile Nzilili. Nzilili, 42, then allegedly tries to castrate the goat shagger with a pair of pliers... More »

10th, March 2012 Flashback 3

London Olympics 1908 In Photos: When Britain Cheated America

The fight against an American had split the judges. The ref’s decision would be decisive. The ref was Douglas’s dad... More »

10th, March 2012 In Pictures

Animals with their heads stuck in things - photos

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10th, March 2012 Strange But True

Wild bear gets head stuck in a jug - and other animals in peril (photos)

Animals with their Heads Stuck in Things of the Day is the bear spotted by Michael Schuler with its noggin in a plastic jug at the top of Ketchikan's Deer Mountain in Alaska... More »

10th, March 2012 Reviews 3

Crufts 2012: dogs craps on the hallowed carpets

CRUFTS 2012: A dog lays a turd on the hallowed carpets: More »

10th, March 2012 Key Posts 18

Madeleine McCann: Helena Monteiro, Rogerio Alves and tabloid excitement

Tabloids rejoice as police sift through old files... More »